China pushes Uighurs to give up fasting in Ramzan
Reuters, Beijing :Some local governments in China’s unruly far western region of Xinjiang are stepping up controls on the Islamic faith followed by the Uighur...
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Sudanese president returns home despite court order
AP, Khartoum :Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Khartoum on Monday to cheers of supporters after leaving South Africa, where a court had ordered his...
S Korea reports 3 MERS deaths as new cases fall
AFP, Seoul :South Korea on Tuesday reported three more fatalities from the MERS outbreak but health authorities said they were cautiously optimistic the worst was...
China to complete land dispute in S China Sea
Reuters, Beijing :China will soon complete some of its land reclamation on the Spratly islands in the disputed South China Sea, the Foreign Ministry said...
Former al-Qaeda leader killed in US strike
AL Jazeera.com :Libya’s recognised government says that the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Algeria, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, has been killed in a coordinated attack with...
Magna Carta ‘changed the world’: Cameron
BBC Online :Magna Carta went on to “change the world”, Prime Minister David Cameron has said at an event marking the 800th anniversary of the...
Hong Kong police arrest nine over ‘bomb-making plot’
BBC Online :Police in Hong Kong say they have arrested nine people on suspicion of conspiracy to manufacture explosives.The arrests come in the same week...
Ban ki calls for immediate Ramzan truce in Yemen
AFP Geneva :UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramzan as talks got underway in...
Syrian Kurds move on Tal Abyad
BBC Online :Kurdish fighters are reported to be moving in on the north-east Syrian town of Tal Abyad, which is held by Islamic State (IS)...
Computer in Merkel’s office hit by cyber attack
AFP, Berlin :A computer in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s legislative office was hit by a cyber attack that targeted the country’s lower house of parliament...
Western ‘haggling’ a risk to nuclear deadline: Rouhani
AFP, Tehran :Iran’s president warned Saturday that haggling by world powers could jeopardise the June 30 deadline for a nuclear agreement, admitting many differences remain...
New deaths and diplomatic warfare rattle Ukraine truce
AFP, Kiev :Ukraine’s faltering peace deal suffered fresh setbacks when Kiev reported the deaths of six soldiers and accused Moscow of abetting an attack on...